Thanks to a smooth top shell with touch-sensitive technology beneath, Apple Computer’s new “Mighty Mouse” allows you to right click without a right button. Capacitive sensors under Mighty Mouse’s seamless top shell detect where your fingers are and predict your clicking intentions, so you don’t need two buttons — just two fingers. Click on the left side to use Mighty Mouse in its simplest, single-button form. Click on the right to access contextual menus within applications and edit, copy, label or download from your mouse.

But what about feedback for the user? How do you knoe if you’ve just clicked a seamless capacitive sensor contained underneath the smooth shell of the “Mighty Mouse?”

Apple explains that the “Mighty Mouse” provides audio feedback that’s built right into “Mighty Mouse” with a tiny speaker inside that produces button-clicking and Scroll Ball-rolling sound effects. Only Apple would spend so much time and thought building a mouse that works seamlessly with the world’s most advanced operating system.

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I’m intrigued by this, and hope it works well with games… tried playing some games on OSX ith the Apple wireless mouse was abit ackward… but the nice mouse that looks like the Apple one but with a proper right-click button and scroll wheel (Forgot the name) looks abit strange, like there’s a crack in the middle due to the split buttons. I hope this Might Mouse comes through!!!

MDN Magic Word: “Thinking”, as in I’m Thinking about getting one of these!

As long as a Speak N’ Spell voice doesn’t go “right click, left click, right click, right click, left click, right click” all damn day, it won’t be facing the business-end of my shoe.

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Sounds like an Apple Product. I don’t think they know the meaning of the words “me too.”

The product also looks really good – for a mouse. I am sorry but as anybody who has ever gotten used to using one knows – Trackballs Rule. They offer the best control available. I cut my teeth on one with the first Powerbooks (I had a 170) and I STILL very much wish the Apple laptops had trackballs instead of trackpads. Before that the first time I ever used a trackball was on the game Missile Command – anybody remember that?

Still the fact that it has a scroll ball may be its saving grace. You still have to move your whole arm to get anywhere tho.